10. III. 1920

In view of the catastrophically severe food supply situation of the workers of Ivanovo-Voznesensk Province, I request that today itself a conference be organized consisting of representatives of the People's Commissariat of Food Supply, the People's Commissariat of Agriculture, the People's Commissariat of Railways, Glavoda, Tsentraltekstilya, and the People's Commissariat of Labor.

FOOD SUPPLY AND PROVISIONS

The convening of the Commission has been undertaken by comrade Kiselev, member of the presidium of the All-Russian Central Executive Committee.

Task of the Commission: discussion of the proposals from the Ivanovo-Voznesensk Provincial Committee of the Communist Party dated 6/III and the elaboration of emergency relief measures. Report on implementation by Saturday to the Council of People's Commissars.

Chairman, Council of People's Commissars, V. Ulyanov (Lenin).

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**EDITORIAL NOTES:**

A report on food supply for the Ivanovo-Voznesensk workers (by A. B. Khalatov, member of the collegium of the People's Commissariat of Food Supply) was heard at a session of the Council of Defense on March 10, 1920. In addition to an urgent directive to Glavoda concerning the supply of the Ivanovo-Voznesensk Provincial Food Commissariat with tonnage of 400 thousand poods for the delivery of potatoes, representatives of the people's commissariats were instructed at the forthcoming conference of March 10, 1920 to reach agreement on this question and submit it, in case agreement was achieved, for Lenin's signature, otherwise to bring this question before the next session of the Council of Defense (Protocol of Council of Defense No. 103 of March 10, 1920). The directive to the people's commissariats was written by Lenin, apparently during the session of the Council of Defense in the course of discussion of A. B. Khalatov's report.